E-Books, Easier than Ever
Have you borrowed e-Books through our DigitalLibraryNJ service? It's become even easier to set up an account and start downloading books. If you have an iPad or other tablet, we recommend the streamlined Overdrive Read format. No special software or Adobe ID is required. Check out this short video tutorial for an overview.
E-Magazines through ZinioThe library currently offers 68 digital magazine titles through our partnership with Recorded Books and Zinio. Any magazine issue is yours to keep, and if you miss a month, we offer back issues, too. Popular titles include Newsweek, Us Weekly, Martha Stewart Living and many more. Check out our Zinio service here.
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A Year of Reading Dangerously Tuesday October 14 at 7:00 p.m.Join our classic book club in a discussion of An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. Part of our year-long series exploring classic banned books. Multiple copies of the book are available for reserve. See the Coffee, Tea & Classics website for more information.
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Book Forum Wednesday October 15 at 1:30 p.m. The book club with no assigned reading. Share light refreshments and talk about whatever you have been reading lately.
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Film Screening: Eight Men Out Thursday October 16 at 7:00 p.m.
Writer/director John Sayles' dramatization of the most infamous episode in professional sports -- the fix of the 1919 World Series -- is considered by many to be among his best films and arguably the best baseball movie ever made. This adaptation of Eliot Asinof's definitive study of the scandal shows how athletes of another era were a different breed from the well-paid stars of later years.), Sayles cast the story with actors who look and perform like real jocks, and added a colorful supporting cast that includes Studs Terkel as reporter Hugh Fullerton and Sayles himself as Ring Lardner.
Starring John Cusack, Charlie Sheen, D.B. Sweeney, Christopher Lloyd, Jace Alexander, Gordon Clapp.
Rated PG, 119 minutes.
The public is invited to stay for a brief discussion after the film. All films in this series are recommended for adults. For more information, call the library at 908-454-3712. Partial funding is provided by the Warren County Cultural and Heritage Commission. Movie License # 196808001
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Happy Bookers Discussion: The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Wednesday October 22 at 7:00 p.m.Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration through the trials of one unforgettable family. Mathis writes with blazing insight into the complexities of sexuality, marriage, family relationships, backbone, fraudulence, and racism in a molten novel of lives wracked with suffering yet suffused with beauty" ( Booklist). Multiple copies of the book are available for reserve. See the Happy Bookers website for more information.
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Do You Want to Be a Ghost Hunter? Thursday October 23 at 7:00 p.m. Peter Callahan of Paranormal and Scientific Techniques presents a lecture on ghost hunting basics. Sponsored by the Friends of PFPL. Seating is limited; call 908-454-3712 to reserve a seat.
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Mean streak
by Sandra Brown
After being abducted from a mountain road in North Carolina, a pediatrician and avid runner, Dr. Emory Charbonneau, finds herself held captive by a violent man with a dark past who may ultimately end up being her savior, in the new thriller from the author of Deadline. Selected by Maureen, circulation staff.
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Heart-shaped box
by Joe Hill
I enjoy a scary book, but the good ones are few and far between. This one is truly creepy, menacing, the kind of book that made me afraid to walk through a dark hallway at home. It's about Jude Coyne, an aging rock star who buys a ghost from an online auction - a nasty, relentless spirit with a personal vendetta against Jude.
What makes it a cut above the average horror novel are the rich characterizations and the attempts to say something a little substantive about human frailty, the awful mistakes we all make, and the possibility of redemption. Selected by Deb Messling, reference librarian.
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Turn of mind
by Alice LaPlante
Implicated in the murder of her best friend, Jennifer White, a brilliant retired surgeon with dementia, struggles with fractured memories of their complex relationship and wonders if she actually committed the crime. Selected by Ann DeRenzis, library director.
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Red Hook Road : a novel
by Ayelet Waldman
Two families living on the Maine coast find their way through grief together after a tragic accident takes the lives of a young, newly-married couple, which results in a broken marriage, a bonding between bereaved siblings, and healing in the form of an adopted girl's prodigious violin talent. Selected by Louise, children's librarian.
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Festive in death
by J. D. Robb
Investigating the untimely murder of a narcissist personal trainer who left a string of broken hearts in his wake, Lieutenant Eve Dallas sorts through a long list of suspects while juggling seasonal demands, including her husband's upcoming holiday bash. Selected by Valerie, circulation staff.
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